Big News : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/azure-blockchain-update-5/

To touch on what RLH is saying:

1. Yes we want to release a 'complete product' so to speak. And to be sure: the 'delays' are not really 'delays' (with exception of outsourced GUI team being unreliable), in this entire period we have optimized IOTA and tested it. So while it may look like there's been considerable delays, in reality there has not been.

2. IOTA was always IoT technology, where GUI is 100% insignificant, so those who make this a focal point of the discussion has completely misunderstood what they have purchased. The reason I repeat this ad nauseam is precisely because for IOTA to succeed we need people focusing on applying IOTA in the real world.

3. We've also held back the official blog until we were ready to launch, so that when everything is ready to go we can go right into the real world and leave this quicksand that is the typical crypto-speculative world behind entirely and only focus towards the real world.

4. There's a lot of exciting news on the horizon for IOTA that will be announced shortly.

5. Instead of sitting around waiting everyone should rather approach businesses, start-ups, meet-ups and events that might have use for the technology. We'll help you out with the required material.

Time for an update
Overall the project and start-up that is Jinn is very much healthy.
We have had a few unforeseen setbacks, mainly 2 outsourced teams we had to fire as well as the crypto-crash that swallowed 50% of our funds, but with everything taken into consideration we are very proud of what we have achieved thus far. We are extremely excited about the future propects of Jinn. We are still pretty much en route for the ETA we set late 2014 for the prototype. However we naturally expect some delays will happen, as is always the case, especially with projects that are both hardware and software, but overall we are very optimistic and confident that we will succeed in all the main goals.

According to the 'powers that be' at Ryver the GUI will be done this week and a fully functional system within a week or two (at the latest. This week is entirely possible). The delay is reported to be due to the design form chosen losing a staffer and surprisingly unprofessionally not being able to deliver the GUI. A new designer has been chosen and is working on it.

I see we are saying "days", and its been weeks. And looks like uts gonna be weeks still. So where are we getting "days"?

Not long time ago I opened their thread and in the very last post CfB said that he deleted a few posts. I guess it should be enough proof that the posts are deleted from there - the lead developer, my great Belarusian friend said himself that he deleted them.

I believe it was around 50k SAT (on BTC price at IPO) or 0.30 USD

I hope for some waves and trade an active market to make some $$$.

Would be cool if there would some ETH Futures on OKCoin tradable with leverage

P.S. When ZSSR went bankrupt, their public debt was 0. If USA - most capitalistic country in the world should have debt of zero, it would be history.

It seems BItshares is suffering a catastrophic collapse.  It has plunged in value over the last few days and fallen to #6.  I suspect this is due to multiple reasons.

Imo, the main cause of this is because Bitshares(TM), the company, is in fact a "company" in the truest sense of the word.  Look at how many "companies" fail in the first few years of operation.  The mass majority fail.  Now compare this to decentralized movements.  If Bitshares(TM), the company, fails, then the current Bitshares' blockchain becomes entirely worthless.  In comparison to a truly decentralized movement, there is no "company" that controls the blockchain and imo, this removes the inherent risk of the "company" failing and taking the blockchain down with it.

I don't bring up Bitshares losing its #5 marketcap spot to gloat, but instead to reinforce, imo, the risk of "investing" in centralized systems.  I started this thread in the hope that it would prevent people from losing money.  It doesn't make me happy to see this occurring.

Even on day #1 most of the volume came from China.  It's probably just that investment fund in Shanghai manipulating left and right.  No real user adoption at all.

How fast?

It will take some time to reach parity with Bitcoin ;-) what you are seeing now is nothing compared with what you will be seeing when the masses figure out what instantX has brought. It is the revolution of crypto currency making it better than any payment method existing, including credit and debit cards

1) NXT
2) Bitshares
3) Ethereum
4) Ripple
5) Bitcoin

Personally, I think FinCEN and the SEC have NuBits and BitShares under a microscope...
And you will eventually see very public trials of the individuals responsible.

Do you even know what proof is? the peg is maintained with US dollars. there are exchanges that have NBT/USD trading pairs and that's where the peg is originally maintained. The NBT/BTC traiding pairs are just some random internet people doing arbitrage.